Senior/Staff Design Engineer
About The Position
Grow Therapy is seeking a Design Engineer to enhance the quality, motion, and polish of their product. This role bridges design and engineering, collaborating with teams to deliver crafted, consistent, and human-centered features. The Design Engineer will embed within product teams to own the interaction quality layer from ideation to launch, ensuring a high level of polish. Responsibilities include identifying and fixing UI issues, refining interactions, improving overall UI quality, defining scalable motion and interaction patterns, contributing to design system enhancements, and partnering with the frontend platform team to align design intent with production reality. This is a key role for building a world-class product surface and elevating the company's craft as it scales.
Requirements
- 5+ years of frontend or UX engineering experience, ideally in consumer or product-focused companies.
- Excellent sense of visual and interaction design, with an eye for spacing, typography, motion, and delightful details.
- Experience collaborating closely with designers throughout the entire product development process.
- Ability to prototype quickly and translate ambiguous ideas into tangible interfaces.
- Ability to build scalable component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI frameworks.
- Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Next, React, CSS systems, and component architecture.
- An understanding of accessibility (WCAG) and web performance considerations.
- A systems mindset seeing patterns, simplifying complexity, and designing for long-term reuse.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence product direction and UI standards.
- A passion for building delightful, consumer-grade user experiences.
- Founder’s mindset - ownership, speed, scrappiness, resilience, bias toward action.
Responsibilities
- Embed across various product teams to support high-impact work, partnering with designers and engineers from ideation to launch.
- Prototype and build interaction-rich experiences that bring design concepts to life in production.
- Collaborate with product designers and product managers to identify opportunities and explore solutions.
- Define motion and interaction standards that scale across the product.
- Proactively identify and execute on opportunities that raise the overall quality bar for visual polish, interaction, and frontend craft across the company.
- Audit and improve production UI by identifying and fixing visual bugs, inconsistencies, and interaction gaps.
- Contribute to design system improvements in partnership with design and the frontend platform team.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life and disability coverage.
- Parental Leave & Family Support: Up to 18 weeks paid leave and a new child stipend.
- Financial Wellness: 401(k) program and equity opportunities.
- Meals & Home Office Support: Stipends for home office setup and ongoing funds for meals, with tailored perks for both remote and in-office employees.
- Time Off to Recharge: Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a full winter break week.
- Wellness & Development: Annual stipends to put towards personal & professional growth.
- Mental & Physical Health Support: No-cost access to therapy through the Grow platform, weekly flexible hours for self-care (“Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons”) and memberships to leading wellness apps (such as One Medical, Headspace, and Talkspace).
- Extra Perks: Pet insurance discounts, commuter benefits, and global travel assistance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
